Louis Seibold,
Interview of Woodrow Wilson
(1920)
“ It was the direct antithesis of what I hope the Democratic convention at San Francisco will turn out to be. The leaders who call themselves Progressive and who pretended to speak for the Progressive element in the Republican party sacrificed every principle that made attractive the movement of eight years ago in order to gratify the ambition of some of the present-day leaders to prevent the people of the United States from fulfilling their honest obligations to the rest of the world and to themselves. The abandonment at Chicago of the progressive spirit was woefully tragic. ”
